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Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Tom Robbins

Philosophy, Educational, Life Is Like

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

Tom Robbins

Philosophy, Educational, Ironic

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.18, Bantam

There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

Tom Robbins

Philosophy, Educational, Two

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.4, Bantam

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

Tom Robbins

Philosophy, Educational, Thinking

This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

Tom Robbins

Philosophy, Educational, People

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.23, Bantam